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Friday, 26 October 2007

If You Ask Me

It's still nowhere near enough. And where are these people? If they are in the South East, where the Tories already hold most of the seats anyway, then who cares?

Who reading this has ever been polled? I never have been, and nor has anyone else whom I have ever asked this question. Furthermore, most opinion polls are now conducted over the phone, so the pollsters know whom they are polling.

All in all, it seems clear that the aim of these things is not to measure public opinion, but to influence it. In this case, to make the unwary think that the super-posh, super-liberal Heir To Blair can win, and that most people want him to.

Not that Brown is an any more attractive prospect, but neither of these things is in fact the case.

oh yes, he suggested to me that he put up at Wantage againt Ed Vaizey, I said that that was a capital idea, and he's doing it. It's all been on here.

Although we're contesting every seat, we are making a particular effort to remove Jacksonite and/or Eustonite MPs, and to keep others of that ilk out of Parliament. Not our only priority, but certainly one of them.

I'd rather not give publicity to Harry's Place. Trotskyism gone Fascist is not exactly my scene. Will they still be publishing comments from Oliver Kamm when he is in prison for his criminal harassment of Neil Clark?

Nothing in principle, but I don't see it as a qualification in itself to be Prime Minister. To support Cameron, you have to see it as such, since there is no political difference between him and Brown.

About Me

Founder, Proprietor, Publisher and Editor of The Lanchester Review since 2013. Founder, Proprietor (for now), Publisher (for now) and Editor-in-Chief of Lanchester Books since 2014. Charity volunteer and administrator since 1994. Freelance journalist since 1996. Supply teacher and market research worker from 2002 until prevented by disability. Member of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham since 2006. Preventing the University of Durham’s undergraduates’ degrees from getting the way of their education since 2000.
Elected Parish Councillor from the age of 21 until I stood down voluntarily in 2013. During that time, Lanchester was among the first in the country to secure power of wellbeing, power of general competence, and Quality Parish Council Status.
At 21, I began eight years as a governor of a primary school which, at the time of my appointment, still had the same Headteacher as when I had been a pupil there. Three weeks short of 22, I found myself in the same position when I began eight years as a governor of a comprehensive school.
Since May 2013, a member of the Community Panel advising Durham’s Police and Crime Commissioner.